The typical skateboard is made of laminated wood. Wood is durable, relatively lightweight, and has the flex and bounce required by the average sidewalk surfer. What it’s not waterproof or particularly exciting. The Hydroflex Skateboard has all these attributes, plus …
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That was fast — just days after a retailer’s leak, Archos has announced the GamePad 2. As hinted earlier, the second-generation gaming tablet is a big improvement over the original. The 7-inch slate is now better-suited to modern games through its sharper 1,280 x 800 IPS display, a quad-core ARM …
Long before the new phablet was officially announced, the internet was abuzz with rumors that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will come with a fingerprint scanner. When the phablet was unveiled last month, it become clear that all those rumors weren’t true. Samsung didn’t even mention a fingerprint scanner or hint at the possibility of upcoming devices having it. A new report from Korea’s ETNews claims that Samsung did have plans to put a fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy Note 3, but that particular feature didn’t make the cut because apparently it didn’t pass the quality assurance tests.
The primary function of the sensor would obviously have been easy locking and unlocking of the device, Apple allows users to also make payments on iTunes through Touch ID, the fingerprint scanner it has put into the iPhone 5s. It isn’t exactly clear why the Galaxy Note 3 with fingerprint reading ability didn’t pass quality assurance tests, the report suggests that Samsung had some trouble getting the size of the scanner right. It also suggests that Samsung hasn’t given up on this technology and that we actually might see a Galaxy Note 3 variant which brings the feature. No word as yet on when such a variant will be released though. The next highly anticipated device with a rumored fingerprint sensor is the HTC One Max, which is likely to be unveiled next week.
Apparently Galaxy Note 3 With Fingerprint Scanner Didn’t Pass Samsung Quality Control original content from Ubergizmo. 
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There are almost as many wireless Bluetooth keyboards on the market as there are Bluetooth speakers. But why spend money on yet another keyboard for your mobile devices when there’s probably already a perfectly good one on your laptop? With this Bluetooth USB transmitter dongle from Buffalo, the keyboards you already have can also work on your smartphone or tablet.
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Toilet cleaning will never be a fun chore. These fun, silly but innovative new toilet brushes might make the task a bit more bearable. These will definitely brighten up the chose and certainly get comments from guests!
We are quite sure that folks would have noticed the price disparity between the Xbox One and the PS4 where their respective launch prices are concerned – after all, we are looking at a $100 price difference between the two. Just how did Sony make their bundle more affordable by $100? Well, that is because there was no inclusion of the Sony PlayStation 4 Eye, which happens to be a motion and voice-sensing peripheral which functions in pretty much the same way as Microsoft’s very own Kinect. We have word that Sony nearly threw in the PlayStation 4 Eye into its PS4 launch bundle later next month, but the suits over at Sony Computer Entertainment decided that the next generation console should not pass the $400 mark, in addition to not lose that much dough considering how the console is being sold at a loss at $400 a pop.
SCE president and group CEO, Andrew House, isn’t too bothered that the Eye has been excluded from the original PS4 launch bundle, although he did mention to Business Spectator, “the vast majority of the audience that we speak to tells us that their primary wish is for the full controller interface and there’s not necessarily a huge emphasis being placed on camera interaction.” Well, I guess that is another mystery solved for those who were wondering why wasn’t the Eye included in the first place.
Sony PlayStation 4 Eye Camera Nearly Made It Into The $399 Bundle original content from Ubergizmo. 
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In a move that’s sure to make the folks at Splashtop less than pleased, the team at Microsoft behind the native Remote Desktop functionality inside Windows have announced extensions to iOS and Android. This means that there will be apps from Microsoft for your iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and Android tablet that allow you to […]
When it comes to playing games while you are on the go, the days of when you were limited to just the Game Boy are long gone. Since then, we have had the likes of the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and its variants, as well as all generations of the Sony PSP in addition to the PS VIta. Smartphones these days have also gotten powerful enough to run fantastic looking games with enough depth in them, but for those who want something out of the ordinary, here we are with the Gameduino 2, which happens to be a Kickstarter project which delivers a kit that transforms an Arduino board into a portable gaming device.
The developer hopes to raise the intended amount of dough over on Kickstarter, and hope to be able to ship the first units this coming December (making it arrive in time for the Christmas season, we would presume) for folks who have decided to pledge at least $59 to the Gameduino 2’s cause. The Gameduino 2 is not the first of its kind, as this new model is a wee bit more powerful than its predecessor, and is also full well capable of handling most of the games that you see are available on Android and iOS devices. Other specifications of the Gameduino 2 include a 4.3” 480 x 272 resolution TFT touchscreen display, an a-axis accelerometer, headphone output, and a microSD memory card slot for expansion purposes.
Gameduino 2 Transforms Arduino Board Into Portable Console original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Marni Kinrys is full of interesting answers.
(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Boys, you’ve been lying to me, haven’t you?
Not just to me, but to your friends too.
You lurch onto Tinder with your egos and tongues hanging out, claiming you’re looking to, as the vernacular has it, hook up.
It’s not true, is it? You’re sitting at home watching reruns of “Pretty Woman,” aren’t you? You’re sobbing into your hankies because, deep in your hearts, you really just wanted to be loved.
Please don’t snort in that annoyingly arrogant way you have. For I have, in my corner, relationship expert Marni Kinrys. She sees beyond your bullish demeanor. And she thinks you’re full of it — full of desperate longing, that is.
She told me: “Nearly 75 percent of my male clients seek my help with the goal of a quality relationship rather than a hookup, which is surprising.”
Surprising? It’s more shocking than if a Republican and a Democratic congressperson began dating. Men even know what a “quality relationship” is?
Kinrys, who patented something called the “Wing Girl Method,” insists that times have truly changed. She told me: “When I started this as a career, men were more concerned with getting laid. Now it seems that there is a shift toward commitment.”
Could this be because men… [Read more]
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Google didn’t spill much on Calico, the Google Ventures founded biotech company that made headlines last month by taking on human mortality and challenging aging, but that hasn’t stopped new tidbits about the well-financed health startup from leaking out. Described as the brainchild of Google Ventures’ managing partner Bill Maris, Calico’s pitch to investors was […]
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